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12 Feb 2010Private browsing will now extend to the Flash plug-in with Flash Player 10.1 Adobe have announced.
“Integrating with your web browser, Flash Player 10.1 will automatically clear stored data in accordance with your browser’s private browsing settings” said Adobe Engineer Jimson Xu.
Flash Player 10.1 supports private browsing with Internet Explorer 8+, Mozilla Firefox 3.5+, and Google [...]
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12 Nov 2009Apple have pushed out an update for Safari users, taking the browser to version 4.04.
The update improves JavaScript and History performance, while also fixing 6 security holes.
This update is recommended for all Safari users and includes improvements to performance, stability, and security including:
Improved JavaScript performance
Improved Full History Search performance for users with a large number [...]
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3 Nov 2009Browser market share stats are out for October 2009 thanks to Market Share by Net Applications.
As usual, Internet Explorer was down for the month, dropping from 65.71% to 64.64%, while Opera had a surprise loss, albeit only small, from 2.19% to 2.17%.
Firefox had a small gain, jumping from 23.75% to 24.07%. Safari was also up [...]
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5 Oct 2009Web browser market share results are out for September 2009 thanks to Market Share by Net Applications.
Internet Explorer has had more than a 1% drop this month, falling from 66.97% to 65.71%, it’s biggest single month drop since November 2008.
Other browser have had a good month, with Firefox moving from 22.98% to 23.75%.
Safari has moved [...]
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4 Sep 2009This months browser share statistics are out thanks to Market Share by Net Applications.
August has panned out like another typical month, with Internet Explorer dropping to 66.97% in August, from 67.68% in July.
Firefox jumped slightly to 22.98% from 22.47%, while Safari remained the same at 4.07%.
Google Chrome also increased its share from 2.59% to 2.84%, [...]
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12 Aug 2009Apple has released a new version of Safari, fixing several security and stability issues.
The update according to Apple includes the following changes:
Stability improvements for webpages that use the HTML 5 video tag
Stability improvements for 3rd-party plug-ins
Stability improvements for Top Sites
Fixes an issue that prevented some users from logging into iWork.com
Fixes an issue that could cause [...]
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4 Aug 2009Web browser market share results for July 2009 have been released thanks to Market Share by Net Applications, and for another month Microsoft Internet Explorer is down again.
Internet Explorer dropped almost half a percent to 67.68%, while Firefox was up 0.04% to 22.47%.
Other winners for the month were were Safari up from 3.79% to 4.07%, [...]
Nightly Mac builds of WebKit, the basis of which Safari and Google Chrome are built on, now include 3D CSS transforms.
3D CSS transforms allow web developers to manipulate objects in the third dimension with simple CSS rules. Current CSS3 standards do not include these 3D transforms, but Apple has submitted 3D CSS transforms to the [...]
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10 Jul 2009Apple has released Safari 4.0.2 for both Mac and Windows, which is available through either software update or through the Safari website.
The update addresses two security vulnerabilities and improves the stability of the Nitro JavaScript engine used by Safari and are described below:
An issue in WebKit’s handling of the parent and top objects may result [...]
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15 Jun 2009Apple has released a press release stating that Safari 4 has been downloaded over 11 million times in just 3 days.
Breaking these down, there were 6 million downloads for Windows and 5 million downloads for Mac OS X.
To compare, Firefox 3 was downloaded 20 million times in 7 days, so the numbers from Apple seem [...]